{"id":58179,"date":"2026-03-16T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=58179"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:34:27","slug":"ron-paul-trump-begs-for-help-on-hormuz-world-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/16\/ron-paul-trump-begs-for-help-on-hormuz-world-says-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: Trump Begs for Help on Hormuz; World Says &#8216;No&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RonPaulLibertyReport\">Ron Paul Liberty Report<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After declaring several times that the US has completely won the war against Iran, President Trump has now backtracked, begging other countries to help open the Straits of Hormuz closed by Iran in response to the US\/Israeli sneak attack. Thus far no takers have come up. Trump is in a massive bind. What&#8217;s his next move?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tiGD4km_r0c?si=zVPMuUPDL8TlIvBx\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s Ron Paul Liberty Report: After declaring several times that the US has completely won the war against Iran, President Trump has now backtracked, begging other countries to help open the Straits of Hormuz closed by Iran in response to the US\/Israeli sneak attack. Thus far no takers have come up. Trump is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[767],"class_list":["post-58179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58185,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58179\/revisions\/58185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58179"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}